A rural Iranian school is conducted in a tent. A man, apparently a school inspector, visits the class and asks the students to answer several questions. The man then explains that he is ...
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Consisting of three separate stories, the director explores "Man" as a theme: birth, life and death, to present a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic portrait of life at the bottom of the ... See full summary »

A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit... See full summary »

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the ... See full summary »

On his fortieth birthday, a man engineers a revolt against himself. He telephones his lovers -- all four of them -- and arranges to meet them at his dance school that afternoon. The women ... See full summary »

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A rural Iranian school is conducted in a tent. A man, apparently a school inspector, visits the class and asks the students to answer several questions. The man then explains that he is merely a passerby who wanted to know about the school. The teacher then asks a student to tell the man about the time the wind blew the school away. Written by
Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>